Rikard Holmdahl

Rikard Holmdahl is a Swedish physician and immunologist. He was appointed as a full professor and the head of Medical Inflammation Research (MIR) unit at Lund University in 1993. In 2008, Rikard and his whole research group were moved to Karolinska Institute. His team was the first to discover and positionally clone a single nucleotide polymorphism at the Ncf1 gene causing susceptibility to autoimmune diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis in rat models. Rikard is an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine between 2016-2021 and was ranked 3rd among the top immunology scientists in Sweden in 2024. From January 2026, Rikard will be recruited to the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University.